International Development Minister Bev Oda: Government

Stephen Harper Dept: What has been striking about Stephen Harper s government through the years is the Prime Minister s reluctance to change the deck chairs. It s been a relatively stable team, one that has featured some laudable performances, according to Globe and Mail. International Development Minister Bev Oda has again been caught running up huge and unnecessary limousine and hotel the Savoy in London expenditures. She is a repeat offender, having been upbraided for her limo luxuries in the past. Her office was also caught up in a document-altering controversy involving the church aid group Kairos. No one can understand, given the example she has set, why the Prime Minister keeps her on and controversies sometimes swallowed the big guns. Finance minister John Turner fled the Trudeau government. Lester Pearson lost finance minister Walter Gordon following the ill-conceived 1965 budget. Mr. Chretien fired his popular and rebellious finance minister, Paul Martin. But it is blunder-prone and looking anything but fresh these days and many in the nation s capital, Conservatives included, see a need for new faces. Consider the woes that have befallen the current slate of ministers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.